[Sigiii-l] [InfoInternational] The new ECPR professional journal

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"European Political Science"
The new ECPR professional journal 

It seems right, then, that a new journal devoted to the professional
concerns of European political scientists should contain a section dedicated
to information issues.  The problem is what particular focus to give this
section that will find the broadest possible audience amongst the readers in
all their disciplinary and cultural diversity.  

There is certainly no
shortage of issues which need addressing that touch on the professional
lives of ECPR members and it is intended to publish contributions in the
following broad areas:


1.  Documentation: digital library developments, full-text sources for
journals and working-papers, transnational European databases, news sources,
digital archiving, publishing developments, etc.

2.  Data: data archives and their organization, availability of new
data-sets, reports on data-gathering projects, software developments, etc

3.  Communications: scholarly societies, professional and theme-oriented
discussion lists, networks, alerting services, etc.

4.  Gateways:  subject-oriented portals, area and regional studies, national
and international social science organizations, etc.

5.  Teaching and Research:  impact of the Internet on teaching, teaching
resources on the Internet, on-line tutorials, distance learning, copyright
issues, plagiarism, etc.

Contributions should be no more than three thousand words long.  They may be
argumentative, demonstrative, selective, reflective, opinionated, judicious
or critical.  In keeping with the ECPR ethos, they should be European in
scope and preferably comparative in their approach.  Kindly avoiding any
overlap with the ECPR Bulletin so  it will not be dealing with specific
announcements about jobs, conferences and funding opportunities or anything
so topical that it is already out of date by the time it go to press.

However, it  will be considered  short notes highlighting a particular information
resource of potential interest to ECPR readers.  In addition, it  will have a
theme-oriented listings service, "Focus on..", which will give a rapid
overview of the best on-line resources for a given topic or region and a
complementary web-page of live links will be made available to facilitate
on-line browsing.  The first one will be "Focus on Working Papers" so send
us your best bookmarks on this topic.

Contributions maybe sent as Word attachments to 
Peter Kennealy
peter.kennealy at iue.it
Social Sciences Information Specialist
European University Institute Library
Florence

EUI Library home-page:
http://www.iue.it/LIB/


- Biju K Abraham -
Moderator

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